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The Puccini problem : opera, nationalism and modernity /
A study of the reception and contexts of Puccini's music.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in opera.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A study of the reception and contexts of Puccini's music. A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the embodiment of the decadence widely felt to be afflicting late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy, a nation which although politically unified remained culturally divided. The book focuses upon two central, related questions that were debated throughout Puccini's career: his status as a national or international composer, and his status as a traditionalist or modernist. In addition, Wilson examines how Puccini's operas became caught up in a wide range of extra-musical controversies concerning such issues as gender and class. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of both the history of opera and of the wider artistic and intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Italy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511482045 0511482043 0511278926 9780511278921 0511277148 9780511277146 0511278349 9780511278341 9780511278952 0511278950 9786610850754 6610850755 9780521106375 0521106370 |